arTenTen: Corpus of the Arabic Web

The Arabic Web Corpus (arTenTen) is a language corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. The corpus belongs to the TenTen corpus family which is a set of the web corpora built using the same method with a target size 10+ billion words. Sketch Engine currently provides access to TenTen corpora in more than 30 languages.

Stanford version (August 2015)

tokenized and tagged with Stanford NLP Tools

word sketch version (fall 2014)

created and implemented word sketches for Arabic

initial version (April 2012)

initial size – 5.8 billion words

part-of-speech (POS) tagged and lemmatized with the MADA tool
We have also created ‘word sketches’: one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summaries of a
word’s grammatical and collocational behavior. We use examples to demonstrate what the corpus can
show us regarding Arabic words and phrases and how this can support lexicography and inform
linguistic research.